Ex-Dem party chair suggests Democrats in Michigan leave ballot blank instead of voting for El-Sayed

Former Michigan Democrat Party chair Lon Johnson on Fox News.

The former chair of the Democrat party in Michigan has pulled support from the party's senate candidate less than two weeks before Election Day, saying thousands of voters aren't interested in voting for Adbul El-Sayed. 

Lon Johnson made the comments on Fox News Wednesday ahead of the second and final debate between El-Sayed and Mike Rogers. "Thousands of Democrats across Michigan don't want to vote for Abdul," Johnson said, adding that the also oppose Rogers, the Republican candidate. "There's dignity in leaving the ballot blank if you don't wish to vote for Abdul."

Johnson went on to acknowledge that black voters and Jewish voters in Michigan have have expressed deep concerns with El-Sayed and Johnson seemed intent on stemming any support among Democrats that is building for Rogers by encourage Dem voters to leave their ballots blank rather than vote for the Republican candidate. 

El-Sayed and Rogers faced off in their second and final debate Wednesday evening. Like the first one, the debate turned testy at times with the two candidates clashing over the Iran war, guns, A.I., defunding police departments, and El-Sayed's apparent support of the Muslim Brotherhood.

"I will tell you this: he did call for defunding the police [and] he deleted all of this material," Rogers said at one point. "Why would you do that? Why would you go through and take all of that time to delete all of the material? X videos, comments, podcast. Why? Because he was passionate about defunding the police," Rogers continued.

"As a matter of fact, he asked the Muslim Brotherhood head, Morsi, in Egypt to defund the police there, too," Rogers added, referring to the former president of Egypt who has ties to the group.

El-Sayed deflected the accusations, but didn't deny them. "He keeps raising this question about this association with the organization," El-Sayed responded. "It's really quite beneath you."

Below, watch a clip of the former Dem party chair in Michigan urging Michigan voters to leave ballots blank.